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statesmen and men of science. It is intended 

 to make the memorial international. Subscrip- 

 tions should be sent to Sig. Cav. Zappata, the 

 municipal Treasurer of Turin. 



Oxford University conferred the degree of 

 D. C. L. on Dr. Nansen on March 18th. 



De. Felix Klein, professor of mathematics 

 at Gottingen, received the degree of D. Sc. from 

 Cambridge University on March 11th. 



Peofessoe E. E. Baenaed, of the Yerkes 

 Observatory, has returned to America. Owing 

 to stormy weather the steamship arrived a day 

 late for the annual meeting of the Eoyal Astro- 

 nomical Society, but a special informal meeting 

 of the Society was arranged on March 2d for 

 the presentation of the gold medal awarded to 

 Professor Barnard. 



General Sebeet has been elected member 

 of the section of mechanics of the Paris Acad- 

 emy in the room of M. Resal. 



M. Gaillot has been appointed successor of 

 M. Loevy as sub-director of the Paris Observa- 

 tory. 



It is stated in Nature that Professor W. Ram- 

 say has been elected a corresponding member 

 of the Royal Academy of Bohemia and of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Turin. 



Me. Heebeet Spencee, in accordance with 

 his uniform practice of declining honors, will 

 not accept the degree of D. Sc, which the 

 Council of the Senate of the University of Cam- 

 bridge proposed to confer on him. 



A MEMORIAL to Professor Jaccard, who held 

 the chair of geology at the Academy at Neu- 

 chatel until 1895, has been unveiled at the 

 Academy. 



A PEOFESSOE of natural science is wanted for 

 the Thomason Engineering College, Rurki, in 

 the northwest provinces of India. Applications 

 should be addressed to the Secretary, Indian 

 Office, London. 



A SELECT committee of the British House of 

 Commons has been appointed to inquire into 

 and report upon the administration and cost of 

 the museums of the Science and Art Department. 

 Parliament will consider appropriations for a 

 frontage of South Kensington Museum and the 



use of the electric light in the Natural History 

 Museum. 



The Lowell Observatory has not found the 

 site in the vicinity of the City of Mexico as 

 favorable as had been expected and will be 

 moved back to Flagstaff, Arizona. 



Dr. Marshall Ward, professor of botany 

 at Cambridge, reports that a collection of Py- 

 renean and Alpine plants, made by the late Mr. 

 Charles Packe, M. A., Christ Church, Oxford, 

 has been presented to the Herbarium, by his 

 widow, Mrs. Charles Packe, Stretton-park, 

 Leicestershire. The specimens, on about 3,700 

 sheets, are mounted and named, and were for 

 the most part collected by Mr. Packe himself 

 between 1858 and 1893. 



Professor H. C. Bumpus has arranged for 

 the students of comparative anatomy of Brown 

 University, according to the New York Evening 

 Post, an excursion on Narragansett Bay during 

 the spring recess. A steamer has been char- 

 tered for the purpose and seventy students are 

 taking part in the work. 



The final sitting of the International Sani- 

 tary Conference at Venice took place on March 

 19th, when the protocol was signed. It will be 

 sent for signature to those governments whose 

 representatives had already left Venice. Turkey 

 signed it with reserves. Besides the ambassa- 

 dors and ministers of the Powers, the follow- 

 ing-named technical delegates have signed the 

 protocol as plenipotentiaries : Dr. Thorne, for 

 England ; Professors Brouardel and Proust, for 

 France ; Professor Emergen, for Belgium, and 

 Dr. Ruisch, for Holland. 



De. E. H. Wilson, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Bacteriology in the Brooklyn Health Depart- 

 ment, secured, some time ago, bacilli of the 

 Bubonic plague and has made experiments 

 with them. He finds that sunlight and desic- 

 cation cannot be relied upon to limit the via- 

 bility of this bacillus under commercial circum- 

 stances. The bacilli survived for forty-three 

 days when desiccated. Dr. Wilson conse- 

 quently holds that rags, mails, ballast and gen- 

 eral merchandise coming from infected ports 

 should be subjected at either the port of depart- 

 ure or the port of entry to a thorough system 

 of disinfection. 



